Press kit

Game	Tahúr: A Blackjack Adventure
Developer	Wasi Mahin (game design and direction)
Made with	AI: Claude, by Anthropic, wrote the code and the dialogue, composed the music as code and drew the art as code. No image generators and no AI voices.
Status	Early Access on the web: chapters 1 and 2 of 5 are open
Platforms	Web browsers (tahurgame.com), on phones, tablets and computers. Android and Steam later.
Price	Free. Nothing is sold in the browser version, and there's no real-money gambling.
Genre	Story-driven blackjack roguelike / card RPG
Contact	support@tahurgame.com

The pitch

Twenty-one, head to head. One hidden card, one face up, closest without going over wins. Then the rules start bending. You're a tahúr, a card sharp, hustling up through Halcyon City's underground card circuit, the Underdeck. Each district's kingpin runs their tables by their own crooked rules. Beat them with powerups that peek, swap and move the target, cards you've marked for good, and the tells you've learned to read.

Features

Duel blackjack: you against a rival, first to five sets or three in a row.
67 powerups and 31 card marks in five tiers that change the rules mid-hand, plus seventeen table events.
Five chapters and twenty kingpins planned, plus a secret last chapter. Early Access has the first two chapters: five kingpins and 25 rooms.
The Ladder (an endless climb) and the Daily Deal (one seeded run a day for everyone).
Drafted online duels: everyone drafts two powerups and plays a random marked deck. Casual, ranked (Hustler to Kingpin), friends' tables by link, and practice against Vic. Cloud save across devices.
Mystery boxes bought with coins earned at the table, odds printed in full. Coins can't be bought.
A pulp-comic look and an original noir jazz score, both made entirely in code.

Name

Tahúr is Spanish for a card sharp. The first written account of blackjack, Cervantes' Rinconete y Cortadillo (c. 1601), follows two young tahúres hustling twenty-one in Seville's underworld.